It has been a rocky couple of weeks for Nick Saban and Alabama football. No college football coach is better prepared to handle such misfortune. And more importantly, no coach is better prepared to take corrective action so quickly and so deeply.
Which is not to say, all since the early morning of Jan. 8 has gone according to Nick Saban’s plan. Far from it. Saban was quickly ready to make coaching changes. Some of those changes were firm in his mind even before the loss to Clemson. But there have been surprises.
The national championship game has been rehashed enough.